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NIGERIA GAZETTE

Government Notice No. 375 REPORT OF AN INQUIRY HELD UNDER HE COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 34) YouR ExcELLENCY, On the 12th of November, 1952, you directed hat we should hold an inquiry under the provisions of section 3 (b), (c) and (e) of the Collective Punishment Ordinance. The purpose of the inquiry was to investigate the circumstances in which serious disturbances among the Okrika and Ogoloma people have lately occurred on Okrika Island in the Degema Division of Rivers Province ; and t ascertain whether all or any inhabitants of any village or district or members of any tribe or…